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Director Andrew Dominik who is on board to helm the Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde says he is still working on the project, and that – despite previous stories – Naomi is still on board to play Monroe. He spoke about the project to various publications recently whilst promoting Killing Them Softly.

Is the Marilyn Monroe film Blonde the next thing you’re hoping to start production on?

DOMINIK: That’s the one I want to do. Yeah, definitely. I’m working on that.

What are the challenges, as a filmmaker, in wanting to tell a story like that, that spans her lifetime?

DOMINIK: I don’t know. She died when she was 36, so you probably need someone in their late 20′s to do the part. There’s a huge chunk when she’s seven, and then the rest of it would all be another actor, who’s the main actor.

Sounds like Naomi may no longer be attached to star in Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde — what do you think about this?

Having a friend in Brad Pitt certainly isn’t a bad thing. The actor has used his superstar clout to get difficult, hard to finance movies made — often choosing to produce them himself via his Plan B shingle — and among his many filmmaker and actor pals, he’s forged a strong relationship with Aussie helmer Andrew Dominik. The pair first teamed up on the existential western “The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” where the actor used his sway with the studio to keep the lengthy title for the film, and stuck by the director’s side during the fraught editing sessions. And just a couple of weeks ago, they hit the Cannes Film Festival with the searing and brilliant “Killing Them Softly,” another ambitious effort produced by and starring Pitt. And it looks like the bromance will continue.

24 Frames reports that Pitt is now set to back to Dominik’s long brewing Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde,” a film the director told us during Cannes that he hoped to make as his next movie. Well, with Pitt now throwing his weight behind the movie as a producer (whether or not he’ll take a role as well hasn’t been decided yet), the wheels are fully turning on “Blonde” and while nothing is locked down just yet, a January or February 2013 shoot for the movie is apparently feasible. But they’ll need to find a new leading lady.

While Naomi Watts became attached to the film in it’s earliest incarnation, the paper says “it’s likely that the filmmakers would go in a different direction.” It’s not clear why she’s no longer involved — she would’ve been great for the part too with the looks and chops to nail it — but it looks like blonde starlets might want to send their headshots to Plan B’s offices.

After a few years in the wilderness after the masterpiece “The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford” underperformed at the box office, Andrew Dominik’s third film — initially titled “Cogan’s Trade” after the George V. Higgins book on which it’s based, and later retitled “Killing Them Softly” — came together quite quickly. The first hints emerged in September 2010, and within a few months it had a star and producer in Brad Pitt, a distributor courtesy of The Weinstein Company, and rolled in front of cameras in early 2011.

But with the film having premiered at Cannes this week, we began to wonder what happened to “Blonde,” Dominik’s Naomi Watts-starring adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ novel about Marilyn Monroe. That film was long-mooted to be his next project after ‘Jesse James,’ and was originally set to get underway in January 2011 before “Killing Them Softly” came along. Was it still a going concern? Or had last year’s “My Week With Marilyn” put paid to Monroe-themed pictures for a while?

Naomi Watts has admitted she is “very, very scared” about portraying Marilyn Monroe in a forthcoming movie biopic because of the latter’s iconic status.

The 42-year-old actress is set to play the yesteryear’s superstar in an adaptation of Andrew Dominik’s ‘Blonde’ and she admits the nerves about the part are getting to her, reported Contactmusic.

“It’s a huge pressure. We all feel we know her. I’m very, very scared about that,” said Watts.

It is not the only movie role she is nervous about – she also felt “daunted” to be playing real life CIA agent Valerie Plame – whose cover was busted by the White House when her husband wrote an anti-Bush editorial piece – in ‘Fair Game’.

Asked about her feelings, Watts said, “Daunting. I’m a lot more fragile than she is. To me, she seems almost invincible.”

She is not the only star to be portraying Marilyn in a movie about her life. Oscar-nominated actress Michelle Williams is also set to play her in ‘My Week With Marilyn’.

Naomi Watts has revealed that her movie about Marilyn Monroe will not show a “glossy, gorgeous” side to the screen icon.

Speaking to Coming Soon, the Australian actress admitted that she will not begin work on the Monroe biopic until she completes next movie The Impossible.

“It’s based on the Joyce Carol Oates novel Blonde which is fictitious even though it’s obviously about Marilyn Monroe,” Watts said. “We’ll see how things go. It’s not the glossy, gorgeous Marilyn Monroe we’re portraying here in a biopic. It’s a very meaty, intense project.”

Andrew Dominik (The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford) will write and direct the feature, which tracks Monroe from childhood into the afterlife.

A rival Monroe project, My Week With Marilyn, is currently filming in the UK with Michelle Williams in the lead role.

Naomi Watts says she feels under “high pressure” over her role as Marilyn Monroe in an upcoming biopic.

The 42-year-old actress is one of today’s most successful Hollywood actresses, and earlier this year it was announced she would play 1950s screen siren Marilyn in a new movie about her life, entitled Blonde.

Naomi is thrilled about portraying such a legendary movie star, although she admits it is rather nerve-wracking as Marilyn, who died in 1962, was so well-loved by the public.

“I don’t have a plan yet on how to do it,” the star is quoted as saying.

“It’s going to be a huge undertaking because everyone obviously has their own idea about who she was. It’s a high pressure thing to take on because of how iconic she was. But I’m just not there yet. I don’t know how I’ll go about it.”

Fortunately Naomi still has a bit more time left to consider which direction to take her portrayal in, as filming doesn’t begin until January.

The movie will detail Marilyn’s life, charting her rise to becoming a worldwide sex symbol before her tragic death at the age of just 36.

It is based on US author Joyce Carol Oates’ ‘imagined memoir’ of the same name. The book caused huge controversy when it was first released ten years ago as it featured graphic sex scenes, including a raunchy encounter with a casting director.